Guild Wars 2

Can we just get the chests to spawn AFTER Vinewrath is defeated instead of having 90% of the maps filled completely and running around without doing events? Like I would like to get Lumi armor set but I have just sat in sw like 4-5 different maps for 3 hours and got to the breach one time and failed because chest farm wouldn’t stop. I would like to play the content, nothing wrong with the chests, just spawn after VW is beaten. Give people and incentive. Of course if you get lucky enough to make it to Vw the leechers from the chest farms head to South entrance and afk. Every godkitten time. I would like to enjoy the Silverwastes and get events done but like I said 90% of the maps that pop up are chest farms. It’s really sad, you have to look for a group actually doing the content. You should be able to join any SW map and be able to defeat vinewrath within an hour if that. But instead all we are getting are a handfull of people protecting maybe two keeps and chest farmers running around leeching until breach. That shouldn’t happen. Chests dont need to be nerfed but they shouldnt spawn until VW is defeated. That way at least people dont have to play for hours at a time trying to get two extracted mordrem parts.

pro tip use the LFG tool. many will advertise 50%+ maps once VW is dead just use the tool again and you be 50%+ on next map

Tomoyo.3482:

pro tip use the LFG tool. many will advertise 50%+ maps once VW is dead just use the tool again and you be 50%+ on next map

Yes…… hit “y” and look for maps, that would be the problem. The majority of maps are chest farms that is the problem. #protip read the post

I’m getting sick of seeing these threads.

1) People have to do VW to get shovels. A full event run will get you maybe 5 shovels if you’re lucky. Your claim of 90% chest farms is completely impossible. Each of those chest farms required at least 1 VW completion.

2) Learn to taxi. Seriously. I have no problem finding VW maps. Push Y, go to open world, look for “SW XX%”, join group, join instance. Hurray, not a chest farm.

3) Just because you chests pinging on the map doesn’t mean “chest farmers are leeching until breach.” Really the people who want to do chest trains don’t like people burning shovels randomly. Chest trains can’t exist if people don’t save shovels.

4) I’m probably one of those people you think is “leeching” because I don’t sit and defend a keep. Why? Because Yaks matter so I escort yaks to upgrade your keeps and make them easier to defend.

I will give you one thing, people afk at south entrance but that’s got nothing to do with chest farming. Otherwise your entire complaint is absurd. My experience for the last 3 weeks straight has been that if I want to do VW I can find a map in 5 minutes tops, if I want to do a chest farm it takes longer. You can’t even claim different servers because we all access the same pool of maps.

Edit: For you reply, Most maps are DEAD MAPS. Chest farms are harder to find than VW maps. Sounds like you’re mad you can’t just zone into SW and find a map that is underway. Guess what, all those 50% maps, people worked to get those there and then taxi people and the VW hunters immediately BAIL ON THE MAP to go to another VW map that is 50%+ and it becomes a dead map, not a chest farm map.

It is about as exploitative as the “WvW Obsidian Sanctum” issues…..

Ignoring the core gameplay to get loot as fast as possible, one could say that has an adverse affect on the economy and yet, nothing is being done about it.

Shame really. It would be nice if we were properly reward for events rather than for doing next to nothing.

livestrongbp.9654:

Tomoyo.3482:

pro tip use the LFG tool. many will advertise 50%+ maps once VW is dead just use the tool again and you be 50%+ on next map

Yes…… hit “y” and look for maps, that would be the problem. The majority of maps are chest farms that is the problem. #protip read the post

i did… you see more chest farming maps do to the fact they dont cap often.. 50%+ maps cap fast and thus have no reason to use the lfg tool. they come in waves far faster then chest maps do. sit back view the lfg tool and you will see tons more 50%+ then chest farm. as some will say why fight from 0% when i will get the same reward as getting lucky and joining a map on VW part.

Maybe it’s just me, but most of the time like 90-95% of the time i find only VW Event Maps…and i had to join a guild to be able to find a chest farm map. You make it sound like every single overflow is occupied by chestfarms…but i call bull kitten on that.

You don’t like chestfarming, ok, i get it…it’s not for everyone. But just cause you don’t like chestfarming doesn’t mean you have to take away this from other people too. Am i forcing you to play the game that way i play it? No…

Press Y and look for another map, and also maybe next time be a little more honest, and keep the overexagerating a bit on the downlow…

Also there was another topic on this subject 2-3 days ago… Seach maybe?

I’ve had almost the opposite experience. I never use LFG, just load into the map and if necessary or if I want to gamble log out and back in 2-3 times to see which maps are available and I find far more event maps than chest farming maps.

Could it be because I’m not using LFG? I’m looking at the maps that the game thinks need more players (usually event maps still on the 1st round of defence) rather than almost full maps where players are taxi’ing in extra people.

My only other guess would be that event maps are more popular on EU and chest farming is more popular on NA. (It could also be server differences, I’m on Desolation which has always been good for big events like these, but with megaservers that shouldn’t be making this much of a difference.)

Edit: Come to think of it I also frequently get whispers from guild members asking if I’m in a chest farming map, and complaining that they can’t find one when I say I’m not. So maybe it is an EU/NA difference.